image sequence as texture not advancing in maya 2018

[robertburtonHDSZ4]

Hi I'm trying to add an animated texture, I have tried tiff targa and .tx files.

im adding the first frame to a file node and selecting use image sequence

its at this point that I get this error

/Assets/movies/face/spaceman-face_00001.tga doesn't exist, node file1 //

the image shows in the render but the sequence doesn't advance ?

I have Maya 2018.1 on mac with MtoA 2.0.2 and arnold core 5.0.1.2

Thank you

[robertburtonHDSZ4 · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

I think I just worked it out. Maya is really picky about the number padding on sequences.

you need 4 frame padding i.e. 0001 etc I had 00001

cheers

[chocofish]

Awesome! thx

[jamesb]

You can edit

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2017\scripts\others\getFileSequenceFormats.mel"

to extend the list of frame number padding formats that maya recognizes.

Place a copy of it in <user>/maya/scripts to override the installed script.

[robbellon]

Amazing! I was looking all over to figure out what was wrong. This fixed it. Thanks!